I won't be 18 until 3 months after the 2012 elections and I am ticked I won't have a chance to help boot Obama out of office.

I voted in the last Presidential election and let me tell you, it wasn't very satisfying when I didn't like any of the candidates. I'm hoping someone worthwhile will run this time so I won't be voting just to get Obama out.

Has anyone considered voting for the candidate who will be easiest to mock? Voting not to improve the status quo (because the status is NOT quo), but instead to maximize the quality of humor pundits (Daily Show, Colbert Report, Rick Mercer Report for Canada, etc.)?_________________"I'm...from Earth."

I won't be 18 until 3 months after the 2012 elections and I am ticked I won't have a chance to help boot Obama out of office.

I voted in the last Presidential election and let me tell you, it wasn't very satisfying when I didn't like any of the candidates. I'm hoping someone worthwhile will run this time so I won't be voting just to get Obama out.

Has anyone considered voting for the candidate who will be easiest to mock? Voting not to improve the status quo (because the status is NOT quo), but instead to maximize the quality of humor pundits (Daily Show, Colbert Report, Rick Mercer Report for Canada, etc.)?

Saterday Night Live!_________________"Everyone gets a nasty surprise someday. I'd rather get it standing up than lying down."
-Anakin Solo

Sarah Palin recently announced that she won't be running for President this time round. I wondered if any of you would have voted for her, had she decided to run?

My answer is obvious, but if I were in the US, I'd not vote for her. I've been researching her recently, and I have to say I wasn't impressed with her. To quote one member from another site:

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She's uninformed on issues she should know more about, and yet, speaks as though she knows what she's talking about. And I don't mean in a "I disagree with her views on ___" sense, I mean in a factual "this is what's going on" sense. It's a dangerous combination.

Too, I'm simply not impressed by her hissy fits whenever someone disagrees or contradicts her, as seen on her twitter page._________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:10 am

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Old Master BenAdministrator

Joined: 10 Nov 2007Posts: 2259Location: Georgia

Sarah Palin was a publicity stunt in my mind. I would never have voted for her, unless we were going with Taral's idea of electing the easiest person to mock.

At this point though, I'm not sold on anyone.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:42 am

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ReepicheepMaster

Joined: 05 Feb 2008Posts: 6957Location: Sailing into the unknown

Well I ended up voting last night (I voted for Horwell) basically because I wanted to vote against McQuinty and his reign of educational terror. Looks like it didn't work anyway._________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

So, whether you're Republican or not, anyone got anything to say about the candidates? Personally I'm favoring Herman Cain. I like what he says, his answers in the debates and interviews, and the fact that he's not a career politician._________________
"I believe toys resonate with us as humans, we can hold them them, it's tactile, real! They are totems for our extended beliefs and imaginations. A fetish for ideas that hold as much interest and passion as old religious relics for some. We display them in our homes. They show who we are. They are signals for similar thinking people. A way we connect with each other...and I guess thats why I do toys. That connection." -Ashley Wood

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:59 am

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Crash OverrideMaster

Joined: 22 Dec 2010Posts: 1962

While a flat tax might seem fair, I would imagine that if Cain's 9% flat income tax were implemented, a person that makes $20,000 a year would miss the $1,800 that is taxed much more than someone making $2,000,000 a year would miss the $180,000.

When you couple that with a 9% federal sales tax, I imagine that it would hit the lower class pretty hard.

I suppose it all comes down to ideology, but in the past few years I've thought that if as a simple matter of reality, "the top 10% [possess] 80% of all financial assets [and] the bottom 90% [hold] only 20% of all financial wealth" in the United States, then if the federal tax system treats everyone equally, then as a matter of reality it's actually benefiting the top 10% that possess 80% of the wealth in the country. Thus, I don't really find it to be "unfair" to increase their tax burden. Even under a flat income tax, they're already taxed more than those less wealthy, is it truly less fair to tax them proportionally more of their income because their income is exponentially more than the lower classes? They're still obscenely rich.

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:55 pm

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Salaris VornModerator

Joined: 02 Feb 2008Posts: 2264Location: New York, USA

Currently I'm not impressed with either the Republicans or Democrats as a party (never mind individual candidates). Personally I'm not inclined to believe either party is capable of running the country as the Republicans seem to stonewall everything the Democrats propose and the Democrats seem unwilling to stand up for anything.

So right now I'll probably be voting for a 3rd party candidate. My feeling right now is that at best the Republican/Democrat nominees will have a case of "lesser of two evils" (namely "will screw up badly enough, particularly economically, to send us back to the middle ages but not so bad we're sent back to the stone age"). So yeah as you might guess I'm pretty disgusted with both parties right now._________________

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/domestic-violence-law-topeka-kansas_n_1006203.html_________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:53 am

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ReepicheepMaster

Joined: 05 Feb 2008Posts: 6957Location: Sailing into the unknown

I hate politicians._________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

The world's been like this for a looong time unfortunately. I've read enough old books to know that.

I'll say it again: I hate politicians. I voted this time for the novelty of turning 18. Never again. Okay, possibly again but I certainly won't be voting for the sake of voting. If I do vote it will probably be to get/keep someone out of office._________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.